Draped loden green merino wool blanket, deep sculptural folds in low light
Weberei Brandt · Allgäu, Bavaria · Est. 1897

Feier — abend.

/ˈfaɪɐˌʔaːbn̩t/ · noun
The German word for the moment work ends. English never got one. You got a blanket instead — Alpine merino and organic cotton, woven in Bavaria, and not one thread of polyester.

Follow the thread
Why it exists

Most blankets sold to tired people are polyester — spun plastic that traps heat, crackles with static, and sheds microfibers into the room you're trying to decompress in. [Decke] [01] [contains] [none.] [Not] [a] [thread.]

Fig. 00 — Licht durch Köper
Light through twill
The weave breathes. Polyester never learned how.
What the weave does

Five decisions, made at the mill, that you feel on the couch.

01 — Fiber

Nothing synthetic against your skin.

80% mulesing-free merino, 20% GOTS organic cotton. No microplastic shed in your living room, no static snap when you pull it over your shoulders, no petroleum sheen pretending to be softness.

FASERGEHALT: 80% WV / 20% CO · KEIN POLYESTER

02 — Climate

Cool in a laptop-warmed room.

Merino fiber buffers moisture vapor before it ever feels damp, so the blanket adapts as the room does — radiator on, window open, MacBook exhaling on your knees. Polyester traps that heat. Wool negotiates with it.

ATMUNGSAKTIV · TEMPERATURAUSGLEICHEND

03 — Provenance

Woven slow. About four yards an hour.

Every Decke 01 comes off the looms at Weberei Brandt, a third-generation family mill in Germany's Bavarian Alps, then gets raised once with natural teasel heads — the same finishing pass the mill has used since 1897. Dense 2/2 twill, 480 g/m², numbered on the selvedge before it leaves the valley.

GEWEBT IM ALLGÄU · SEIT 1897

04 — Health

Tested for what isn't there.

OEKO-TEX® Standard 100, Class I — the grade written for infant textiles. Undyed or plant-dyed colorways. No formaldehyde finish, no optical brighteners, no flame-retardant coating quietly off-gassing beside your face.

SCHADSTOFFGEPRÜFT · KLASSE I

05 — Nervous system

Three pounds of all-clear.

The dense twill drapes with a gentle, even pressure your body reads as “nothing is on fire.” Calm without the twenty-pound glass-bead furnace of a weighted blanket — you can actually fall asleep under this one in July.

3.1 LB (1,4 KG) · 55 × 79 IN

Read the label

Everything a blanket should have to declare, sewn in.

The sewn-in label is the one piece of honest documentation in the textile industry. Ours reads the way a spec sheet should: short, verifiable, and with nothing to hide behind a ™.

Fiber80% merino wool · 20% organic cottonFaser: 80% Merinowolle · 20% Bio-Baumwolle
Weight480 g/m² · 3.1 lb totalGewicht: 1,4 kg
Size55 × 79 in · a true oversize throwMaß: 140 × 200 cm
Weave2/2 twill, teasel-raisedWebart: Köper, kardendistel-gerauht
MillWeberei Brandt, Allgäu, BavariaMühle
EditionNumbered on the selvedge · 15,000 a year, never moreAuflage
CertifiedOEKO-TEX® Standard 100, Class IZertifikat
GuaranteeMended by the mill for life · entered in the weave registerGarantie: lebenslange Ausbesserung
CareCold wool cycle (86°F) · line dry · ships in cotton twill, never plasticPflege: Wollwaschgang 30°
The shutdown ritual

Your calendar ends at six. Your cortisol doesn't. Give it a cue.

Living room at dusk: closed laptop, steaming mug, loden blanket over the armchair Fig. 01 — Feierabend, observed · 6:06 PM

Laptop lid down. Not sleep — down.

Status set to away. Kettle on. Phone face-down on the shelf, not the armrest.

Wool over the shoulders. The weight lands, the day ends. Feierabend.

Someone who isn't born yet pulls it off the back of your couch and calls it theirs. Heirloom.

The arrival · Die Ankunft

The box is the overture. Nothing inside is filler.

Open forest-green rigid box on a walnut table: loden wool blanket wrapped in unbleached cotton twill, tied by hand, sealed in beeswax, register card resting on top Fig. 02 — Die Verpackung
Close-up of an amber beeswax seal pressed with the mill stamp, on cotton twill over loden wool, beside a hand-tied knot Fig. 03 — Das Siegel
Nº 1

The knot

Cotton twill wrap, tied by hand at the loom. There is no tape anywhere in the box. Your first act is untying a knot someone tied in Bavaria.

Handgebunden · Kein Plastik
Nº 2

The seal

Beeswax over the fold, pressed with the mill's 1897 stamp. It cracks once — and only for you.

Bienenwachs · Siegel der Weberei
Nº 3

The register card

Your blanket's number, your name, the weaver's initials — a duplicate of your line in the Webbuch, on card stock heavier than it needs to be. People frame these. We pretend to be surprised.

Aus dem Webbuch · Von Hand nummeriert
Nº 4

The blanket

Three pounds of teasel-raised twill, still carrying a trace of lanolin and the valley. Unfold it once and the box stops mattering.

Decke 01 · Zum Erben bestimmt

You will fold the wrap and keep it. Everyone does.

UngefärbtUndyed fleece
LodenAlder-bark dye
GraphitWalnut-hull dye
2026 run · 14,213 of 15,000 claimed · yours is Nº 14,214 The 2024 run sold out by August · 2025 by June

Decke 01 — $589

Woven to order in the Bavarian Alps — your name goes on the loom schedule and into the weave register the Brandt family has kept by hand since 1897. Fifteen thousand numbered blankets a year, worldwide; the looms cannot make more. Duties and U.S. delivery in the price, thirty nights on your couch to be sure, and the mill mends it for life — across the fifty years it's built for, that's about twelve dollars a year. A blanket like this isn't replaced. It's inherited.

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14,214 is held for this visit · 10:00 Commission Nº 14,214 Or join the 2027 waitlist Looms start in — after that, the 2027 run Duties & U.S. delivery included · Wrapped in cotton twill, never plastic